Once a long-established law firm in Ireland with a name famed around the world, Argue & Phibbs has since been incorporated into the Sligo law firm of McTernan MacGowan. See also Sligo Town; plaque photo by Niall McAuley on Flickr.
[Back story: this is adapted from an item I intended to post on Overlawyered in 2004 (!) and just now stumbled across while going over old post drafts.]
We posted last month about Mike Chase’s new book “How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender” (Atria Books). For a deeper dive, check out Shoshana Weissmann’s lengthy running thread with many more highlights from the book. And of course since A Crime a Day is itself a Twitter-based project, you should be sure to follow it while there (see also).
"To engage in criminal flamingo bartering, the offender only needs a lead on a flamingo and something of roughly equivalent value to trade for it." pic.twitter.com/rh0KuP6JmC
— Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair ? (@senatorshoshana) July 11, 2019
“An amusing guide to some of the more bizarre statutes can be found in the new book ‘How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender‘ (Atria Books) by criminal defense lawyer Mike Chase, who also runs the Crime A Day Twitter account.” [Reed Tucker, New York Post] “‘Almost anyone can be arrested for something,’ Justice Neil Gorsuch observed in a case the Supreme Court decided last month.” [Jacob Sullum]
Collins v. Virginia (5/29/18)
No vehicle search
In curtilage of a home
Without a warrant https://t.co/jNJZjcOZ0F— Supreme Court Haiku (@SupremeHaiku) May 29, 2018
#SCOTUS #haiku
Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (5/21/18)NLRA won't
Stop solo arbitration
If parties agreedhttps://t.co/G6jq2VzVfv— Supreme Court Haiku (@SupremeHaiku) May 21, 2018
#SCOTUS #haiku
Carpenter v. United States (6/22/2018)Cell-site records grab
Is a Fourth Amendment Search
Likely need warranthttps://t.co/Jc92MkhjRX— Supreme Court Haiku (@SupremeHaiku) June 22, 2018
Now out: Supreme Court Haiku paperback makes a perfect fun gift for your literary or contemplative lawyer friend.
A website devoted to legal issues raised by episodes of the comedy Seinfeld. Check it out!
“Have you been hurt in an accidental car? Has the government sold your lungs without asking nicely?… Answer me!” — humor from Keaton Patti on Twitter. “The lawyer opens a briefcase. It’s full of lemons, the justice fruit only lawyers may touch.” Call for a free use of phone!
From Martyn Reding on Twitter:
When the design team loses a debate with the legal team. pic.twitter.com/oYTnvNVqQ0
— Martyn Reding (@martynreding) August 21, 2018
From NatlSecCnslrs on Twitter, who got it from Tumblr:
I am dead. I have died. pic.twitter.com/FEA8PAsPrB
— Natl Sec Counselors (@NatlSecCnslrs) July 25, 2018
We’ve linked an item from this series previously, but it deserves a post in itself: “Law’s Picture Books,” an exhibition at NYC’s Grolier Club, displayed more than 140 items from the Yale Law Library’s collection of images and writings on legal themes. In a series of ten posts at Concurring Opinions (link is to the series tag), Mark S. Weiner explores many of the highlights. They include images of courtrooms and of lawyers at work; books using mathematical and quantitative methods to address legal issues arising from water and land; images used in law teaching; tree-and-branch and other diagrams; and a 1554 treatise on criminal law whose breakthrough innovation was its inclusion of 60 woodcuts depicting specific crimes.
More in videos at Weiner’s Worlds of Law and in pictures at Mike Widener’s Flickr account. More on the steamroller cartoon in the series entry “Laughing at the Law.”
